A British sniper currently holds the publicly known record for a confirmed kill shot. As a Corporal of Horse in the British Army, Craig Harrison used a .338 caliber L115A3 Long Range Rifle to shoot a man from 2,707 yards (1.54 miles) in Afghanistan in 2009.
Variability is a measure of the spread of a data set. Learn more about the different measures of variability including the range, variance, and standard deviation, and how they are used in the field of Psychology.
The Standard Deviation. The standard deviation is the most common measure of variability, measuring the spread of the data set and. the relationship of the mean to the rest of the data. If the data points are close to the mean, indicating that. the responses are fairly uniform, then the standard deviation will be small.